Justin Yim

Assistant professor leading the Novel Mobile Robots Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, developing LEAP, a legged jumping robot designed to hop through Enceladus's plumes to sample and study its subsurface ocean.

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Oct 22, 2025 • 1h 2min

2025 NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium: Part 2 — Hopping robots and the search for exoplanet magnetospheres

Join Mary Knapp, a research scientist at MIT leading the GOLO project, as she explores using space-based radio arrays to study exoplanet magnetic fields. Michael Hecht shares his innovative electrolysis techniques to transform Venus’s atmosphere into fuel for exploration. Robotics technologist Benjamin Hockman discusses Gravity Poppers, tiny probes for asteroid mapping, alongside a tethered balloon for imaging Venus's surface. Justin Yim introduces LEAP, a hopping robot designed to sample Enceladus’s plumes, revealing exciting potential in the search for extraterrestrial life!

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